Sometimes you get lucky,maybe very lucky
I bought a job lot of half dozen wines and champers at a garage sale some ten years ago for a pittance. Two nights ago ,a gem of a wine from that lot was drunk and what a pleasant surprise as i wasn't confident of storage by the previous owner. The '98 or...
I love these stories.
Unfortunately I have never been lucky enough to find a garage sale with such wonderful wines. I have had the same type of surprise buying at auction where you never really know if the provenance is what it is said to be. I need to look through my Italians...
it was just sheer luck------unfortunately never again replicated.
I'm sure we all have stories of consuming great wines at restaurants at a bargain--- but that's another story best henry
My sister gave me a bottle of that as a birthday present...
When I looked it up and saw the price I nearly fainted! I can't remember exactly when we drank the Ornellaia but it was good. My "best deal" was buying 6 bottles of Inglenook (Niebaum / Coppola) Rubicon for $9 each at an auction. We bought another 400 bot...
That's the best way to enjoy these finds------with friends over a good meal!
You have some great wines there!
Another match with the rubicon.
I started my collection in the us around Coppola. I had my euro cellar but my intro in the us was around Coppola who i found had a real Bordeaux esk feel. ...
Yes, that looks just like what we found
At the time I think it was $90 a bottle or something like that. It was a great tour through his winery too, maybe back around 1998. Mike
